There is no greater danger than underestimating your opponent.
Displaying riches and titles with pride brings about one's downfall.
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!
The Way is empty, yet inexhaustible, like an abyss!
To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.